A rocket launching to space from an airplane is sort of like a hat on a hat, but you know what? The more hats, the better.

A mission to raise the orbit of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is poised for launch no earlier than Tuesday, June 30, at 6:23 a.m. EDT (10:23 p.m. UTC+12), from Kwajalein…

Washington (dpa) - Mit einer kurzfristig angesetzten beispiellosen Rettungsmission will die US-Raumfahrtbehörde Nasa einen Forschungssatelliten vor dem Absturz bewahren. Dafür…

And the Hubble Space Telescope could be next

The Swift Observatory, launched in 2004, has been falling back to Earth due to recent higher-than-usual solar activity.

NASA is executing an unprecedented, first-of-its-kind rescue mission to save the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a highly successful 21-year-old space telescope that is rapidly…